What I Learned This Week - 4/6/18

1.  622 days until Star Wars Episode IX is in theaters.
2. I’ve finally unlocked the achievement of being so tired that the voices inside my head are snoring. #StillDeafening
3. When one of your daughters is crying, never ask them if it’s because of their haircut. #DadNo
4. “Papercut-on-the-eyeball” is an actual worker’s compensation thing. #OMGOw
5. There is a big difference between the “Millennium Falcon” and the “Millennial Falcon”. #AddVapePen
6. A “flock of eagles” is actually called a “convocation” and that just seems wrong.
7. Americans spend more on lottery tickets than on movies, video games, music, sports tickets and books combined. #ThatsALot
8. You could remove 1 BILLION people from each of the two most populous nations on Earth, and they would STILL be the two most populous nations on Earth. #ChineIndia
9. Miami Florida has had more days with recorded snow than recorded days exceeding 100 degrees. #NeverBeenAbove100
10. Every five seconds nine people die and twenty-two are born - In the time it took you to read this approximately fifteen more people have died. #YouMurderer #ReadFaster
11. The US is still paying one Civil War pension (not a typo) – an 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran. #IreneTriplett #73dollarsAMonth
12. The US put a man on the moon before they put wheels on luggage. #Priorities
13. Every other planet in the solar system could fit in the space between the Earth and the moon and there still would be almost 5,000 miles of space.
14. In 1945, a chicken (actually rooster) named Mike, lived for 18 months with his head cut-off.
15. Every odd number contains an “e” and “e” is the fifth letter of the alphabet which is an odd number - I have no idea what to do with this information. #EforEvilMaybe